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2009 Billy Mays, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc., dies at age 50
2002 Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84 2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75 2000 Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43 2000 Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79 1998 Dick Higgins, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press, dies of a heart attack in Quebec, Canada 1997 Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58 1996 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72 1996 Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash 1995 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82 1995 Jorge Peixinho, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dies in Lisbon, Portugal 1995 Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 1995 Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37 1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68 1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85 1994 Fred Lebow, U.S. founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer 1994 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80 1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies 1994 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37 1994 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83 1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1994 Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76 1993 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80 1993 Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (Kansas City Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76 1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder 1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72 1993 Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84 1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies 1992 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79 1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies 1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1992 Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82 1992 Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84 1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies 1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies 1992 Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies 1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies 1991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies at 82 1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 1991 Floyd B McKissick, U.S. founder (CORE), dies 1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1990 T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies 1990 Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies 1990 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76 1990 Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies 1990 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86 1990 Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Med), dies at 88 1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 1988 North Carolina federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy 1988 S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83 1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50 1987 Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74 1987 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78 1986 Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways), dies at 81 1986 L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74 1985 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 1984 Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81 1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1982 Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67 1981 Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82 1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 1981 Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed 1981 Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91 1980 Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90 1979 Conrad Hilton, U.S. founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 1975 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87 1975 Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73 1974 McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres 1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84 1973 Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72 1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 1972 Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder (SF Zen Center), ashes buried 1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies 1971 James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95 1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies 1968 Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84 1967 Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies 1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80 1966 Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63 1965 Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies 1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1961 Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91 1961 David Huff, born in America, David Lyndon Huff, drummer, songwriter, producer, session musician, founder, Giant, 1980's hard rock band, member of White Heart, a Christian rock band 1960 John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84 1958 Billy Mays, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc. 1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 1956 Nick Banton, founder, Body Positive 1955 John Stevens, member of European Parliament, founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative party, known for his pro-Euro policy stance 1955 John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89 1954 Jeffrey Sachs, born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey David Sachs, economist, founder, co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance to end extreme poverty and hunger, Senior Advisor to the Global Poverty Project 1954 Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society 1954 Steve Morse, born in Hamilton, Ohio, rocker, guitarist, founder of the Dixie Dregs, guitar player in Deep Purple 1954 B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies 1954 Curtis Sliwa, founder, Guardian Angels, radio personality, WABC 1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73 1953 Debbie Steinbach, born in Fullerton, California, professional golfer, author, instructor, twelve-year LPGA Tour veteran, founder of Venus Golf, wrote, 'Venus on the Fairway', has provided over 5,000 individual golf lessons 1953 Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53 1951 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder, Vakvereniging Medical Astrology 1951 Peter Gordon, born in New York City, New York, Peter Laurence Gordon, experimental composer, musician, opera, world music, jazz, rock influences, founder, Love of Life Orchestra, composed for Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, worked on Desperate Housewives soundtrack 1950 Kid Creole, born in the Bronx, New York, born Thomas August Darnell Browder, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, producer, founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts 1950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies 1949 Walter Hyatt, born in America, musician, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business' 1949 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79 1948 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66 1948 Billy Zoom, born in Savanna, Illinois, musician, guitarist, founder of punk rock band X, Guitar Player named him greatest guitar player of all time in 2007, worked with Gene Vincent, rockabilly legend, as well as Etta James, Big Joe Turner 1947 Eddie Antar, founder/CEO, Crazy Eddie Electronics Store 1947 Edgar Broughton, born in Warwick, England, founder, progressive rock group, The Edgar Broughton Band, 1968 1946 Debbie Moore, founder/CEO, Pineapple Dance Studios 1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD 1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party 1945 Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1945 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies 1945 Carlos Gimenez, Argentina/Venezuela founder, Theater festival of Caracas 1945 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies 1944 Stephen Scott, born in Corvallis, Oregon, composer, developed bowed piano, founder, Bowed Piano Ensemble, 1977 1944 Molly Bennett Aiken, founder, riding for the handicapped 1943 Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT 1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft 1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma 1943 Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari, creator, Pong 1942 Colin Sanders, founder, Solid State Logic 1942 Barry Diller, founder, Fox-TV 1942 Petr Kotik, born in Prague, Czech Republic, composer, flutist, minimalist style, founder, S.E.M. ensemble, wrote opera, 'Many Many Women' 1942 Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union 1941 Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83 1940 David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder, Dutch Soc-Dem 1940 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 1940 Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder, Children's Hospice International 1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies 1940 Peter Goldstein, joint founder, Superdrug 1940 Jorge Peixinho, born in Montijo, Portugal, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group 1939 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70 1938 Carmen Callil, born in Melbourne, Australia, publisher, author, founder, Virago Press, publisher of Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press 1938 Dick Higgins, born in Cambridge, England, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press 1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 1937 Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv 1936 Michel Decoust, born in Paris, France, composer, conductor, studied with Pierre Boulez, teacher, founder, Pantin Conservatoire Municipal de Musique 1936 Wally Amos, born in Tallahassee, Florida, actor, speaker, co-wrote, 'The Power in You', founder, 'Famous Amos' chocolate chip cookie brand, first African-American talent agent, represented Diana Ross & the Supremes, Simon & Garfunkel 1936 Dipak Nandy, founder, Runnymead Trust 1936 Manfred Schoof, born in Madgeburg, Germany, composer, founder, European free jazz, professor in Cologne, interpreter of works by Bernd Alouis Zimmermann 1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 1934 Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL 1934 Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center 1932 Charles Stanley, born in Dry Fork, Virginia, senior pastor, founder of In Touch Ministries, created globally syndicated religious broadcasts, appearing in 500 radio stations, 300 television stations, in 49 languages 1932 Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants 1932 Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1932 Max Schubel, born in America, composer, contemporary classical music, founder and owner of Opus One records, recorded new music 1932 Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies 1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 1930 Robert Buchanan, founder, Center for History of Tech Bath University 1930 Herbert David Croly, U.S. founder (New Republic), dies at 61 1930 Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods 1930 Luis de Pablo, born in Bilbao, Spain, founder, Alea, Nueva Musica, teacher, composer, chamber music works include 'Ex voto for Violin and Viola' 1995 1929 Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall 1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, founder, Children's Television Workshop 1929 Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival 1929 Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash 1928 Bo Diddley, born in Mississippi, acclaimed as a founder of American rock and roll, singer, guitarist, songwriter 1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies 1927 John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1926 Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing 1926 Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp 1926 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera 1926 Prunella Briance, founder, National Childbirth Trust 1925 Malcolm X, Little, Detroit Red, Omaha NB, founder, Black Muslims 1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo 1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79 1924 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66 1924 Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91 1924 Patrick Sergeant, founder, Euromoney Publications 1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder, USA Today 1923 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder 1923 Jean Nidetch, born in Brooklyn, nutritionist founder, Weight Watchers 1923 Sam Phillips, musician/record founder, Sun 1922 Margaret Scott, founder, Australian Ballet School 1921 Eunice Shriver, founder, Special Olympics 1921 Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust 1921 Andries Treurnicht, Dr. No, founder, South Africa Conservative Party 1921 Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck 1920 An Wang, founder, Wang Labs, Wang Computers 1919 Ellen Stewart, actress/founder, La Mama Theatre Group 1919 Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier, 1953, 1957-64 1918 Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder, Sony Nederland 1917 Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community 1917 Carl Karcher, born in Ohio, restauranteur, founder of Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, supported Conservative causes 1915 Lancelot Ware, founder, MENSA 1915 Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians 1915 Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder, NVSH 1914 Alec Dickson, founder, VSO 1913 Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder, Alma musica 1913 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder, Sports funds 1913 Werenfried [Flip] van Straaten, founder, Oostpriesterhulp 1912 Philip Kapleau, founder, Rochester Zen Center in New Haven 1912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 1912 Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1911 Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader/founder, Federal Trust 1910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies 1910 J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies 1910 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder, LSE 1910 Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts 1910 Gloria Stuart, actress, Rose-Titanic, founder, Screen Actors Guild 1910 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder, Samsung Business 1909 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting 1909 Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland 1907 Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at 65 1907 Paul J. Steenbergen, Netherlands, actor, Ciske Rat, founder, Hague's Comedy 1907 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 1906 Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO, Honda Motor Co 1906 R. W. Bonham, founder, International Braille Chess Association 1906 Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP, ARP 1905 Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1905 Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College 1905 Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office 1905 Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1905 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60 1904 Juan E Yrausquin, founder, Party of Patriot Arubans, minister 1904 Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950 1904 Mary Calderone, physician/founder, planned parenthood 1904 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder, Het Parool 1903 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder, Spanish Falange 1903 Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder, Look Magazine 1902 Ray Kroc, born in Illinois, founder of McDonalds and owner for the San Diego Padres 1902 Allen Lane, English publisher/founder, Penguin Books 1902 Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments 1901 Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies 1901 Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder, Club Mediterranee 1901 Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society 1899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild 1899 Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder, NSNAP 1899 Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum 1899 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies 1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways 1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies 1898 August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder, CVP 1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1896 Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet and writer, founder of surrealism 1895 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, founder, Peruvian Aprista Party 1894 Forrest Shaklee, founder, Shaklee Products 1894 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist 1894 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies 1893 Johannes T. Thijsse, Dutch founder, Waterloopkundig lab Delft 1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy 1893 Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization 1892 Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics CEO/founder, Helena Rubinstein 1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 1891 Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day 1890 Harlan Sanders, founder/CEO, Kentucky Fried Chicken 1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM 1889 Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1888 Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America 1888 Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38 1888 Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd Vice President, 1941-45, founder Progressive Party 1888 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder, AVRO 1888 James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service 1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76 1888 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder, Boekengids 1887 Aldo Leopold, founder, Wilderness Society 1886 Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing 1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 1885 Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder, Red Cross of Curacao 1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1884 Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons 1884 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder, Aikido 1883 Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder, Sturmer 1882 Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder, Calvinist party 1882 Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony 1881 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care 1880 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder, National-India Party 1880 B. C. Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences' 1880 Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance 1877 Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder, KGB 1875 James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney 1873 Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst 1873 Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder, New Taalgids 1872 Horace Greeley, U.S. founder/publisher (New York Tribune), dies at 61 1872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein 1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose 1871 Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931 1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party 1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party 1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union 1869 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum 1868 Johan H. A. Schaper, Dutch MP/founder, SDAP 1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77 1865 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76 1865 John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59 1865 Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 1864 Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League 1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder, Rolls-Royce 1863 Henry Royce, founder, Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884 1863 Swami Vivekananda, born in Calcutta, India, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893 1862 Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder, Doubleday and Co 1861 Rudolph Steiner, born in Kraljevic, Austria, founder, doctrine of anthroposophy 1860 Henrietta Szold, founder, Hadassah 1860 Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America 1860 Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder, Zionist movement 1860 Will Keith Kellogg, born in America, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company, pioneered process of making flaked cereal, promoted corn flakes as a healthy breakfast cereal 1859 Balington Booth, founder, Volunteers of America 1859 Josephin Peladan, French writer/founder, French Rosicrucians 1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters 1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist, founder NV Royal Salt Industries 1857 Robert Baden-Powell, founder, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides 1856 Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau 1855 Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder, Cabaret oberbrettl 1855 Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of Treasury 1853 August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club 1852 Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57 1852 Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses 1852 Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49 1850 Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper 1850 Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism 1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1847 W R Pettiford, Founder, Alabama Penny Savings Bank 1846 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper 1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company 1842 Anton G van Hamel, founder, Roman Philology in Netherlands 1841 Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy 1839 Georg von Siemens, founder, Deutsche Bank 1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1839 John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist and founder of Standard Oil 1837 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder, CVP 1836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43 1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine 1834 Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24 1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish 1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag 1833 James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60 1832 Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism 1832 Philip Danforth Armour, founder, Armour Foods 1831 Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 1831 Helena Blavatsky, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true 1829 Hendrik Gerhard, Founder, Dutch Social-Democratic 1829 William Booth, founder, Salvation Army 1828 Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901 1827 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder 1826 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher, Van Dale 1825 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner 1821 Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross 1821 George Williams, England, founder YMCA 1820 Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation 1819 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 1819 Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder, Halle Orchestra 1819 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations 1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies 1818 William George Fargo, founder, Wells Fargo 1817 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI 1814 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the People 1813 Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time 1811 James Melville Gilliss, founder, Naval Observatory in Washington 1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies 1809 Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus 1808 Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau 1807 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters 1807 Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University 1806 Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag 1805 Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church 1805 Henry Wells, founder, American Express Co and Wells Fargo and Co 1805 John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church 1805 Henry P. Scholte, Dutch / U.S. vicar and founder, Pella colony in Iowa 1804 Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder, Anti-Corn-Law League 1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator and founder, U.S. kindergarten 1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies 1803 Prudence Crandall, founder, School for "young ladies of colour" 1802 Marie-Franeois-Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies 1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1798 Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder, sociology and positivism 1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder, Institute of Charity 1795 Gerhard M. Roentgen, industrialist, founder dockyard Fijenoord 1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies 1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement 1789 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder 1788 Sarah Hale, founder, Seaman's Aid Society of Boston 1788 Alexander Campbell, Irish / U.S. founder, Disciples of Christ 1788 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies 1787 Samuel Cunard, founder, 1st regular Atlantic steamship line 1781 Stamford Raffles, founder, Singapore 1778 Catherine McAuley, born in Dublin, Ireland, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children 1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein, gymnastics, movement 1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76 1778 Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac 1763 Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America 1745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry 1744 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder, House of Rothschild 1736 Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder, Shaker movement in America 1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51 1735 John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp 1725 Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India 1725 Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India 1704 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America 1696 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/religious order founder 1691 George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66 1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder, Danish and Norwegian literature 1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder, Holland Spectator 1677 John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 1660 St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies 1660 Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum 1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania 1637 Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder, Chicago 1633 Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 1632 Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1629 Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies 1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 1620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia 1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony 1614 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1612 Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies 1610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists 1608 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 1594 William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 1563 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, Caracciolini 1561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony 1558 Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies 1556 Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65 1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome 1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1530 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 1495 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder, Brothers of Mercy 1483 Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India 1526 - 1530 1483 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty 1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint 1360 Louis, founder of house of Anjou 1327 Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder, Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan 1303 Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies 1286 Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China 1262 Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies 1249 Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies 1236 Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies 1229 Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 1189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies 1160 Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder, Trinitarians 1142 Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies 1134 Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 1124 Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies 1073 Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies 976 T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies 732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line 615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies 580 Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam 511 Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45 482 Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies 439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 347 Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies |
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